[SultanKnish] The infrastructure of manufactured intelligence has become a truly impressive thing. Today as never before there is an industry dedicated, not to educating people, but to making them feel smart. From paradigm shifting TED talks by thought leaders and documentaries by change agents that promise to transform your view of the world, manufactured intelligence has become its own culture.Manufactured intelligence is the smarmy quality that oozes out of a New York Times column by Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Frank Bruni and the rest of the gang who tell you nothing meaningful while dazzling you with references to international locations, political events and pop culture, tying together absurdities into one synergistic web of nonsense that feels meaningful.
There's a reason that there's a Tom Friedman article generator online. But it could just as easily be a New York Times article generator that sums up the hollowness of the buzzword-fed crowd that is always hungry to reaffirm the illusion of its own intelligence.
We all know that George W. Bush was a moron. And we all know that Obama is a genius. We have been told by Valerie Jarrett, by his media lapdogs and even by the great man himself that he is just too smart to do his job. And it's reasonable that a genius would be bored by the tedious tasks involved in running the most powerful nation on earth.
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Hardy the Marching Morons John C Campbell had in mind. But far more dangerous to society in terms of the influence they weild in terms of public opinion.
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 ||
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Credentials in "Field A" do not imply Competency, even basic Competency in "Field B"...
I remember a webpage discussion where a retired USAF colonel opined that "...NCOs, such as senior US Army sergeants, were unfit to lead men in combat because (quote) they were too close to their men (un-quote)..." I may trust anything he said about flying a big aluminum bird, but at that point his opinion on other matters, well...
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True intelligence knows how to conceal itself in plain sight. There is probably a lot more of that in the world than the vast majority even suspects could exist.
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Real intelligence is the product of constant debate.
Nah. In my lifetime the major production of "constant debate" has amounted to ever more egotism and discord. The most intelligent people I've met are the ones who pay close attention and who have a very loose grip on their own cherished opinions and biases.
No, the Pubs seem to lack the cojones to uncover the left's failures and corruption. What!? Do you think some of them might be a part of the failures, corruption and cover-ups?
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Smart people want to hear all sides of each issue in order to discover flaws in their own views, and to improve them.
Those who try to suppress debate and urge their followers to listen only to their side prove their own stupidity by doing so.
And this is the mantra of the left today!
Posted by: Daniel ||
07/27/2018 22:45 Comments ||
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[PJMedia] They must be burning whatever gallons of midnight oil they have left at MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. -- all the propaganda organs of the Democratic Party -- trying to figure out how to downplay the agreement Donald Trump just made with European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker, but it's not going to be easy. This is the beginning of a massive free trade deal between Europe and the U.S. with zero tariffs outside the auto industry. If even half of it comes true, there will be a (okay, why not?) YUUUGE growth in trade benefitting both sides of the Atlantic.
Forget porn stars. Forget tapes. Forget evil Vlad and Rocket Man. Forget insulting our NATO partners (whatever that means). Forget that pseudo-socialist with the hyphenated name. Forget Mueller, sleazy Strzok , Adam "Leaker" Schiff, Fingers Clapper, Knuckles Brennan, Rocko Rosenstein, or any of the sordid crew. Forget even Twitter! (well, maybe). By comparison, those are all sideshows. As everyone knows, in politics, "It's the economy, stupid!"
...Making matters worse for the Dems, this new deal entails growing sales of liquid natural gas by our country to Europe. Who does that most affect? Well, duh, Comrade Putin, of course. Thought experiment (actually you don't even have to think to answer this one): What do you suppose would trouble Putin more -- the U.S. cornering the LNG market or Trump calling him a bunch of nasty names?
...It also should be powerful ammunition for any Republican running this fall. Do you want the Trump economy or do you want a return to the Obama economy? It's as simple as that. Trump continues to negotiate great agreements for America, at home and abroad. The "Art of the Deal" may be a cliché by now, but it appears to work. And when something's working for once, why change it -- especially to something that already failed?(Or, in the case of socialism, worse than failed -- caused mass impoverishment and mass murder.)
If Republicans can communicate that simple message, they will win big. Not always geniuses at marketing their ideas, this one is so obvious maybe even the GOP can do it. But will they?
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growth in trade benefitting both sides of the Atlantic
I'll bet the hard part was getting the governments to let go of the tariff taxes, which were probably more expensive tax revenue wise than they were worth. A 100% tax on zero trade is still no money. In the end, it will be good for all once they see the tax revenue flowing in through more normal channels.
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 ||
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"It's the economy, stupid!"
That's generally true when the economy is bad, but when it's good, people assume it's normal and permanent, and don't associate it with politicians and elections. The issue that matters will be something else, like plastic straws.
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